On lun, 2003-02-17 at 06:59, daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
Yesterday I looked for an empty link to fill in and came up with [[Madura]], which appeared in [[Islands of Indonesia]]. I wrote a short article, which appears, but today, looking for another island to write about, I saw that the Madura link on the [[Islands of Indonesia]] page still appears empty. I clicked on it and came to the editing box, with my text there, instead of the page itself. Is this some kind of bug)?
Yes, known buglet. The page itself hasn't been edited, so it reports itself as unchanged when your browser asks if it needs to fetch a new copy or if it can use a cached copy.
Hold down control and hit refresh, this should force a reload.
This should only strike users of Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher. Of course, that's the vast majority of our users -- which is why caching was enabled for them to reduce stress on the server from unintended reloads. ;)
(A better system for invalidating caches by adding a 'last-touched' timestamp field to the database has been proposed.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)